ChicagoSax is blues Chicago all by himself as he has been playing all over town since the late 50's so he knows very well what it is when you talk about Blues in the Windy City. The songs he chooses to cover aren't radical progressives but what he does with them takes them to the other world. In-between he talks about music and Chicago and wraps you up in a vibe that tells you what Chicago really means.
(Sister Julie the Poet and Eepz listening to ChicagoSax)
For this picture, it looks like ChicagoSax is bringing more greens than blues but sometimes we just have to play with the lights. ChicagoSax is experimenting too as his EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) can use two hundred and fifty-six voices because it uses a synthesizer. He was trying one voice after the other last night and they ranged from a guitar sound to a B3 organ. He got the best voices he could find for it and these are all rich, full, and immensely expressive.
It took much longer for MIDI implementations to appear for wind instruments as there is lots of complex technology behind that. In the early days of MIDI for guitars, typically the translation was not so good and the speed was awful. What I notice specifically with ChicagoSax and his EWI are there is no evidence of any notes 'wobbling' as they all ring clean and pure plus ChicagoSax can play whatever speed he likes and it keeps up just fine.
You can visit the ChicagoSax Web page and see his instruments. They really are beautiful and they look highly-foreign to me as I have no experience with wind instruments but they still look ridiculously cool.
Cat asked if I would like to play after ChicagoSax so I did do it for some time and it was very cool for ChicagoSax to stay. Where ChicagoSax is so smooth and elegant, I, well, am not (laughs). There's no need to write any more of my own set just now as I will play again shortly and there can be a report from that.
(Sister Julie the Poet and Eepz listening to ChicagoSax)
For this picture, it looks like ChicagoSax is bringing more greens than blues but sometimes we just have to play with the lights. ChicagoSax is experimenting too as his EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) can use two hundred and fifty-six voices because it uses a synthesizer. He was trying one voice after the other last night and they ranged from a guitar sound to a B3 organ. He got the best voices he could find for it and these are all rich, full, and immensely expressive.
It took much longer for MIDI implementations to appear for wind instruments as there is lots of complex technology behind that. In the early days of MIDI for guitars, typically the translation was not so good and the speed was awful. What I notice specifically with ChicagoSax and his EWI are there is no evidence of any notes 'wobbling' as they all ring clean and pure plus ChicagoSax can play whatever speed he likes and it keeps up just fine.
You can visit the ChicagoSax Web page and see his instruments. They really are beautiful and they look highly-foreign to me as I have no experience with wind instruments but they still look ridiculously cool.
Cat asked if I would like to play after ChicagoSax so I did do it for some time and it was very cool for ChicagoSax to stay. Where ChicagoSax is so smooth and elegant, I, well, am not (laughs). There's no need to write any more of my own set just now as I will play again shortly and there can be a report from that.
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